Sergei Karaganov is Dean of the School of International Economics and Foreign Affairs at the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow, and Honorary Chairman of Russia’s Council on Foreign and Defense Policy.

Everything the article describes is like an old movie that is screened by mistake instead of the movie everybody wants to watch.
As the last week's hurricane like events showed the world has changed in a fundamental fashion.
First of all the decades long Anglo-Saxon hegemony dominating the world both in economic and military terms has fallen. It has started with the 2008 global crisis and it has been completed through the present Syrian crisis.
On the other hand neither Russia, nor China or anybody else has the status to take over the "captain" role, Europe has long been irrelevant.
And it would not even make sense to raise a new captain since the world has become global, interconnected and interdependent.
We find ourselves on a common ship, where the "captain" has fallen off the bridge, but the ships is still heading in the wrong direction defined by the unsustainable constant quantitative growth socio-economic model, and the Middle Ages style, bullying foreign policy, threatening each other with weapons of mass destruction.
The ship is going in the wrong way, it is also broken and sinking so unless the "crew" decides to work mutually together for survival we will all drown.
So leaders and media all need to stop the "usual games, bandwagons, black and white reporting", and hype about nothing, and the public also need to regain consciousness after decades of "comfortable circus and bread" brainwashing as we have no time to lose.
Mutually, together humanity has unlimited potential.

First, new START disarmament proposals are opposed by neocons in US Congress, and you seem to be echoing their ideological discomfort against Obama (also). Why?

Second, transparency and good governance will eventually provide Russia with a foothold not only in Central Asia but also BRICs. Moscow City elections was not a democratic one... for outsider observer's.

Third, after fall of the Berlin Wall (1989), and eventual dissolution of Soviet Union, history has not been fair to Russia in spite of Gorbachev's actions.

Finally, in Syria, I suspect Lavrov (FM) will finally succeed in imposing his vision on Putin to not only accommodate Obama's principles but also to enlarge the global sphere of influence for both sides on Disarmament and other major international issues.

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